Process license ?

Hello Everyone,

Our company is currently under the Enterprise agreement with Microsoft
and I was wondering when it came to clustering, how many processors do we
have to licenses if both boxes has four processors in each box?  The way
we're running the cluster is Active/Passive.  We are using SQL 2000 Standard
edition along with Enterprise edition of Microsoft Windows 2003 Server.  If
someone could give me some insight I would highly appreciate it.

Thank you
Alex Anderson

SQL Server 2000 Standard Edition doesn't support clustering, so that is your
first problem.  Now ignoring that, in an Active/Passive configuration you
need only license the maximum number of processors on any server in that
configuration.  In your case that would mean 4.  If you had a configuration
where the usually active system had 4 and the usually passive system had 8
then you'd need to license 8.

--
Hal Berenson, President
PredictableIT, LLC
http://www.predictableit.com



"Alex Anderson" <AAnderson@Murrieta.org> wrote in message
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> Hello Everyone,
>
>    Our company is currently under the Enterprise agreement with Microsoft
> and I was wondering when it came to clustering, how many processors do we
> have to licenses if both boxes has four processors in each box?  The way
> we're running the cluster is Active/Passive.  We are using SQL 2000
> Standard edition along with Enterprise edition of Microsoft Windows 2003
> Server.  If someone could give me some insight I would highly appreciate
> it.
>
> Thank you
> Alex Anderson
>
>
>

Alex Anderson wrote:

> Hello Everyone,
>
>     Our company is currently under the Enterprise agreement with Microsoft
> and I was wondering when it came to clustering, how many processors do we
> have to licenses if both boxes has four processors in each box?  The way
> we're running the cluster is Active/Passive.  We are using SQL 2000 Standa
rd
> edition along with Enterprise edition of Microsoft Windows 2003 Server.  I
f
> someone could give me some insight I would highly appreciate it.
>
> Thank you
> Alex Anderson

SQL Server 2000 Standard Edition doesn't support failover clustering.
Your options are to upgrade to Enterprise Edition or to SQL Server 2005
Standard Edition, which do both support clustering.

"Under each of these editions, keeping a passive server for failover
purposes does not require a license as long as the passive server has
the same or fewer processors than the active server (under the per
processor scenario)."
http://www.microsoft.com/sql/howtobuy/faq.mspx

--
David Portas, SQL Server MVP

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Including CREATE TABLE and INSERT statements usually helps.
State what version of SQL Server you are using and specify the content
of any error messages.

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http://msdn2.microsoft.com/library/ms130214(en-US,SQL.90).aspx
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Thank you both.  Understood!

Alex Anderson

"Alex Anderson" <AAnderson@Murrieta.org> wrote in message
news:usdeZCoJGHA.668@TK2MSFTNGP11.phx.gbl...
> Hello Everyone,
>
>    Our company is currently under the Enterprise agreement with Microsoft
> and I was wondering when it came to clustering, how many processors do we
> have to licenses if both boxes has four processors in each box?  The way
> we're running the cluster is Active/Passive.  We are using SQL 2000
> Standard edition along with Enterprise edition of Microsoft Windows 2003
> Server.  If someone could give me some insight I would highly appreciate
> it.
>
> Thank you
> Alex Anderson
>
>
>